Though
all of the MMS gardens share the two themes of nature and medical
history
and tradition, Hortus Medicus is considered the signature garden. Every
medieval European university that had a medical school had a medicinal
plant garden tended by medical students. Using the academic lingua franca
of that time, these gardens were called Hortus medicus, Latin for
the
medicinal garden.

The
MMS Hortus Medicus features plants with known medicinal values as
well as
those that do not have or have not yet been scientifially proven to have
medicinal value. There are more than sixty varieties of plants
growing
in Hortus Medicus and many more scattered throughout the MMS gardens.